Features
A collection of heavy oil articles
Innovative ESP completions
Olegario Rivas, Director of Curriculum, Artificial Lift and Completions for the Network of Excellence in Training (NExT), describes techniques to produce more heavy oil from multiple reservoir zones, and reduce solvent and ESP power expenditures.
Characterizing Heavy Oils to Optimize Solvent-based Production
Professor Harvey Yarranton, University of Calgary, talked to heavyoilinfo.com about the program of the newly created NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Heavy Oil Properties and Processing.
Geophysical monitoring of heavy oil production
Heavyoilinfo.com talked with Bob Godfrey, Principal Geophysicist at the Schlumberger Heavy Oil Regional Technology Center in Calgary, about the value of seismic and other geophysical measurements for monitoring heavy oil fields.
Keep your cap on
This article discusses different applications of technology designed to help reduce the risk of cap-rock failure in thermal heavy oil recovery. The injection of high pressure steam as part of SAGD can cause thermal expansion which can lead to cap-rock failure resulting in lost recovery and in some cases damage to surface facilities.
The value of geochemistry in heavy oil development
Heavyoilinfo.com spoke with geochemist Kevin McCarthy about the geochemical characterization of heavy oil reservoirs.
